Reserves v Villa

[bassavage]

Doyle in the side for tonights game.

1. Mikkel Andersen
2. Daniel Spence
3. Ulises De La Cruz
4. Jem Karacan
5. Andre Bikey
6. Alan Bennett
7. Seol Ki-Hyeon
8. John Oster
9. Kevin Doyle
10. Shane Long
11. Oliver Bozanic

12. Simon Church
13. Alex McCarthy
14. Hal Robson-Kanu
15. Tom Hateley
16. Patrick Cox

Villa include Juan Pablo Angel, Luke Moore, Stuart Taylor and Jlloyd Samuel.

[Banjax]

nice squad

i really want to see how Seol gets on

[higher]

Text updates Here

VILLA: Taylor, O'Halloran, Samuel, Laursen, Lund, Hogg, Herd, Gardner, Angel, Moore, Stieber. Subs: Bevan, Earls, Clark, Bannan

Corner urzzv after good work by the Oyster...ooooh

Karacan fired straight at Taylor on 19 after good work down the left from Doyle.

Hogg fired narrowly wide from distance two minutes later as he raced onto a clever flick from Angel.

Moore tested Andersen moments later, but found the keeper equal to a long-range drive as he met another Angel flick.

Gardner dragged a snap shot narrowly past the upright on 25. Moments later Angel headed wide from a Stieber cross.


Reading keeper Andersen twice denied Gardner on 26 as the midfielder raced onto Angel's through ball.
Gardner was not to be denied though and headed home from Stieber's subsequent corner.
Villa 1 Royals 0

Samuel booked on 30 mins

[Chaney]

link dont work

[higher]

Its at the villa main site.Try going to that and roaming about.

[Behindu]

YES IT DOES....

[higher]

The lively Gardner almost doubled his and Villa's tally on 33, but saw a well struck drive deflected behind for a corner.

Taylor did well to parry Seol's drive on 36, reacting quickly after being unsighted by a defender

McDermott Out.

[higher]

2 nil villa grr

[higher]

Moore was denied by Andersen on 46 and Angel fired just wide seconds later as Villa made a bright start to the second-half.

Taylor did well to deny Oster on 51 and recovered quickly to block Doyle follow up. Doyle fired over the bar from the edge of the box on 54.

De la Cruz was denied by former team mate Taylor on 56 as he cut in from the left and unleashed a rising drive.

Seol's left-foot drive was deflected over the bar on 66 as Reading looked to reduce the arrears.

Herd blocked Long's low drive as the visitors enjoyed their best spell of the game.Long then fired over the bar as he met Bikeys through ball.

Moore was denied by Bikey on 74 as he met Angel's flick after good work from Herd and Hogg in midfield.

Long fired over the bar from the edge of the box on 81 as he met a Church flick.

NOTE: Church on for Doyle (62);Robson-Kanu on for Bozniac (62) Hately on for Oyster (76)

[higher]

3 nil villa.......... O'Halloran added Villa's third on 84, meeting Stieber's corner from the left with a well directed header.

[eaststandbird]

Thats got to be our biggest defeat of the season.

[higher]

True not good but were still Toppa the league Toppa the league...

Gardner almost added a fourth as he raced onto Laursen's lon ball on 87, but was denied by a superb save from Andersen.

Ah well cant win em all.

[M4 Junction 11]

Is the title chase likely to go down to the final home game or will it be all over by then?

[higher]

Table+fixtures

Its in our hands really.I suppose Chelsea might field their full squad if they get booted out of the champions league and apply a bit of pressure

[Barry the bird boggler]

Next 2 weeks fixtures :

Fulham Res vs Arsenal Res Tue 10 Apr 07 19:00
Portsmouth Res vs West Ham Res Wed 11 Apr 07 19:00
Reading Res vs Charlton Res Wed 11 Apr 07 19:00

Arsenal Res vs Watford Res Mon 16 Apr 07 19:00
Charlton Res vs Portsmouth Res Mon 16 Apr 07 19:00
Chelsea Res vs Aston Villa Res Mon 16 Apr 07 19:00

[papereyes]

Gardner's pretty decent from what I can remember seeing of him for Villa. Might be worth a look if available/cheap/loanable.

[Super_horns]

We lost the other night to West Ham and have Chelsea next so I guess its us out of it.

Gibbsy (Nigel) won the title with us a few seasons back so its good to see him going well with you Reserves as well.